Teachers

Bianca Locatelli

started dancing at the age of six and tried a lot of dance styles from ballet to street dancing. Though, she got stuck in swing dancing, her biggest passion. She has been competing and performing several years first in Italy and then internationally. Nowadays she’s social dancing, competing and teaching Boogie Woogie and Lindy Hop in Sweden and all around the world. Bianca recently received the EuroStar Award which was given to her for showing talent and potential and for having exemplified the spirit of the dance during the European Swing Dance Championships. Bianca thinks that music is the most inspiring factor for her dancing, she enjoys social dancing and watch people dancing and having fun. She went to Herräng for the first time at the age of 14 and since then swing dancing has become an essential part of her days,

Nils Andrén

has now been dancing for 11 years. He has throughout his career been constantly competing in various dances such as Boogie Woogie, Salsa, Lindy Hop and the Swedish bugg. During several years of dancing he has acquired numerous of podium placements on competitions all around the world in Lindy Hop and Boogie Woogie. Nils is nowadays traveling around teaching, competing, DJing and social dancing. Music is his main source of inspiration and by dancing and teaching Nils tries to transmit to the audience and his students.

Sara Planas & Pol Prats

Sara Planas started dancing classical ballet when she was 4. Ballet, contemporary, hip hop… Dance has always accompanied Sara. It was not until 2009 that she fortunately discovered lindy hop and has been a passionate dancer and teacher since, teaching lindy hop, jazz steps and aerials in several schools. She has been spreading lindy hop and shag and acrobatics in other cities in Spain and outside the country like Geneva (Switzerland) and Dublin (Ireland) and London. Co-founder of the BCN SHAG FESTIVAL and Groovin’ & Movin’ Festival ,and member of the EURO SHAG Team, Member of the jazz steps group: Les Puces together with Lucile Pinteaux. She won the 1st place at the J&J Shag MBSW 2016.

Pol Prats is the founding director of Spank the Baby School in Barcelona. He has taught in different festivals in the UK, Sweden, Portugal and Finland including Stir it, Gnsh and London Swing Festival. African dance, tap dance, Alexander technique and others have been part of Pol’s interests and is recently fond of acrobatic dance. Co-founder of the BCN SHAG FESTIVAL & Groovin’ & Movin’ Festival.